Apparently, at Carleton College, it was global warming before it wasn’t. “Though there are no conclusive links between recent events and global warming, ‘the consensus really is that we are observing more-severe and more-frequent weather events,’ says Martha M. Larson, manager of campus energy and sustainability at Carleton College, which is coping with a regional drought while also recovering from a series of floods,” Julia Love reported in the Chronicle of Higher Education on September 14, 2012.